MOBILE Chicken Coop Tour {IN WINTER}!!

This is how we raise our chickens in a Texas Winter Snow Storm!
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We are a better together family of 6 living in an 800sqft Shed to House Conversion and currently converting a 336sqft shed into a tiny house for our new studio! Oh yea, we are doing our best to build a sustainable homestead in central Texas raising pigs, chickens, and rabbits…. and hopefully more!!!!!
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[@GardenKatt]

My fams favorite saying. Use what you have to make what you want.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Love it!!!

[@MeganHurst]

Kelly should do more videos! She did great! Loved this tour ❤️

[@BetterTogetherLife]

YYYYYYYYYYYUP!!!! I have been telling her that for years!!! 🤣🤣 And I think she is coming around to it!

[@lauras627]

Yes, you’re awesome!

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi..... Thank you for showing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🏡🎥👍👍👍

[@margmurray1945]

Thanks for the tour and the info on the tractors....

[@TheHardcoreRob]

To show my support I sit through the advertisements.

[@hoofandpeck]

We’re full timers and homesteaders from Indiana and came to Texas with the whole fam in our camper. We’ve been incredibly blessed to have power and water full time at the ranch we are at, but many others have no heat, no water and no electricity. Praise God everything has been fine so far. Praying for everyone here.

[@hoofandpeck]

While this weather here is much “warmer” than we normally have in the north, the lack of water, and electricity, and inability to clean the roads is super terrible for so many people here. My heart goes out to those much worse off.

[@grandoakacres7203]

I love this video! I'm going to paint some of those milk crates and hang those in my coop for nests boxes. And the egg layers in a tractor moving behind larger livestock is a GREAT idea!

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Cute!

[@melaniemohler3634]

Great job on the informative video, Kelly! Living in Kingwood (northeast Houston), Tx, but living vicariously through you.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Melanie! That’s super kind. Thank you. I know, living in Houston is a bummer when you can’t have chickens. But you do have AMAZING growing seasons!

[@Tinyhomedeals]

We have friends in the DFW area that are without electricity and water. Hope you all stay safe and warm. 🌞

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Oh! My heart is aching. We have so many friends and family without power for over 60 hours!!!

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

Add cayenne pepper to the chicken feed during the cold laxed laying months and it helps them lay more. They dont have heat receptors so it want hurt them but it warms their gut to promote better laying when it's cold. Use four of the chick lifts and you can move even easier. Been seeing that alot lately

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Great advice!

[@danielafurlan322]

Hope all is well with the other animals and glad to see you....Here in the south west Ohio we got it a great amount of snow and wind and is very cold....Yes my chicken area looks like the tent city, too windy for them to come out. Be safe out there.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

They all did well. We are hoping to warm up this weekend and walk around the property to see what damage is done. But all animals are well!

[@hahna77]

We have all of our chicks in the house with us right now, lol. We weren't sure how they would contend in the freezing weather. It's good to see that all of yours are doing well. We will probably put ours back out soon, after this final freeze passes. I'm also going to look into that Chickshaw, great idea!

[@brittanybass6636]

Chickens are naturally hardy birds. They dont need heat and its actually a fire hazard. As long as their bedding area is away from draft and you have a lot of bedding for them as well as roosts they will be fine outside. Id acclimate them tho for a couple days first. Put outside during day and bring in at night ☺

[@BetterTogetherLife]

I’m so thankful they’re all well. I hope yours made it through the cold ok!

[@carolcalf2032]

I came to you after the hollers gave you a shout out. Enjoyed it. Keep warm. 🥶

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Oh wow really?!! Aren’t they just the best!! May I ask, where did that shout us out? On a YT channel or on Instagram? Meg and Ben are great friends!!!!!

[@carolcalf2032]

@@BetterTogetherLife on KZbin. I don’t use Instagram because my fiends were hacked this has happened recently to the Arms Family homestead. They have had their Facebook highjacked. Whoever highjacked their account has been posting really bad stuff and Facebook not taking action. I feel safer on KZbin

[@vedha6273]

Good work

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Thank you so much!

[@maryellencook9528]

Well done, Kelly! Stay warm, thaw is coming soon!

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Thank you, friend! Funny how that hope is so encouraging. Today was much lighter than earlier this week. We had some worrisome days.

[@maryellencook9528]

@@BetterTogetherLife I know! It got down to single digits here in Kerrville earlier in the week. I was without power for 22 hours. I woke up to my interior house temp at,32°F on Tuesday morning. Thank God for gas stoves!

[@vk33771]

I live much farther north in TX. Temps this week were below 0 and wind chills were crazy low. I gave up the chickshaw during another harsh winter (of course it was nothing like this winter!) I use it to raise new birds, now. I've seen so many wild birds that froze to death this week that I suspect my chickens wouldn't have made it in the chickshaw.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

We had some lousy temps here this week. Praise the Lord our birds came through and were scratching on grass today !

[@laurelb1962]

That was a very informative video about Chicken Tractors. I'm a huge fan of Justin Rhodes, but I never heard anyone explain about them like you did. KUDOS to you. 👍 I am new to your channel, I heard about your farm by way of the Hollar Homestead, Ben mentioned you all in his most recent vlog. I look forward to seeing/hearing what all y'all are up too. Take care, God Bless, Laurel 💗😁

[@BetterTogetherLife]

I’m glad it was helpful!

[@ripdinecola7250]

Nice job!

[@tracybruring7560]

I have got to tell you i have chickens and i have pekin and muscovy ducks. The pekins never blinked with this winter storm. they slept out in it and acted like they were at the beach; the chickens and muscovies were miserable. I may just go with the pekins from now on; firing up the incubators again next week. I lost two incubators full of eggs with the power outages this week

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Oh! Good advice!

[@krzysztofrudnicki5841]

I was thinking about chickshaw, but using deep bedding in stationary coop will give you a lot of black gold.

[@leroyvandrie3611]

Thanks 🙏

[@efraimsyailendra1885]

Mantap sir, love from Indonesia!

[@apuffofpekingese6443]

Please try growing palms !!

[@blesseddwellings9829]

Glad you guys have power! I believe you all were more prepared then most sense you have rain water. Someone I work with in Texas was using snow as a water source and boiling. Crazy!!

[@BetterTogetherLife]

So many are using snow for water for dishes and flushing. Just melting it in the bathtubs. We are all on boil notices for water right now.

[@CleoCastonguay47]

What's'up with all that snow and freezing rain? Hope you guys don't lose any chickens in that cold crazy weather! Great job Kelly explaining the two types of chicken tractors you guys use. Heard on the news you're supposed to get back to 70 degrees today.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Oh Mr Cleo, we REALLY HOPE SO!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you as always for being with us!!

[@sonjz_]

poor chickies, for canadian weather, don't generally need insulation (maybe further north), but important to have draft-free coop. sustained cold wind will frostbite the combs/waddles/feet. good roosts, draft-free enclosure for them to huddle, and a dog bowl warmer is huge help to avoid dragging water out twice a day.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Jason. You just said “for Canadian weather”. We live in Texas.

[@sonjz_]

i hear you, but i also see snow and frozen water bowls, just sharing, same as you.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

That was for only two days. 🤨

[@MrShazaamm]

Yeah I'm in TN and our weather is like asking your wife what restaurant she wants to dine at..... I keep 5 gallon water containers for my pigs and the cows n horses have to drink from the spring I dug out when it freezes.

[@sapulpaorganics5402]

Happy to see you guys doing well. I'm in Oklahoma and got LOTS of snow but no ice like you did.....Just an idea. You guys should have a backup for heat and you sure have a lot of wood on that land sooooo a wood burner would be perfect....just sayin :o)

[@BetterTogetherLife]

We see that gap in our prep too. You’re right.

[@billyswaim76]

It’s been a trying week in South Texas

[@BetterTogetherLife]

We are WITH you on that.

[@theresaherfindahl5781]

Great Job Kelly ! But where do we go to see your friends chicken coops?

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Hey, Theresa! Head to Instagram and follow @azurefarm, @theblessedbarnyard, @olivia.p.Kramer, @coxhomestead_kodak, and @pivot.farm . They probably saved them to their highlights !

[@explorewithrodrigo]

Hola. Do you have a "Watch them all in Order" Playlist??? IF you do, can you direct me to it please cause I love to binge

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Hmmm, you know I am not sure if I do. But maybe I’ll try to work that up and then comment back here. Thanks for the fun idea!!!

[@explorewithrodrigo]

@@BetterTogetherLife Thanks. I know not many people do it, but also know that subs love to binge from the beginning.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

hahaha!!!! I was bored, just spent the last hour or so going through ALL OF MY VIDEOS and creating a good list from the very beginning until TODAY! kzbin.info/aero/PL0FDjkYOA0myAKa_YGTmQShm0yA2M1yyO And now I will add each new video to this Playlist. Thanks for the great idea and THANK YOU FOR WATCHING!!!!!

[@explorewithrodrigo]

@@BetterTogetherLife oh wow. thanks you so much. I'm very sure lots of people will appreciate this. I did this too for my cooking channel but it's not as important there. "La Cocina de Rodrigo" if anyone wants to check it out :) I loved being helpful. Thanks again kzbin.info/door/1aleiKcKTPRMC-Rp48iZgw

[@sallyboothe911]

@@BetterTogetherLife yes, I would like to be able to watch your videos in order. I’ll be getting my first chickens... ever... in May. Trying to soak up all the info I can. Blessings from frozen, snow covered NE Mississippi.

[@lauras627]

I was praying for y’all!!! Wondering how y’all were doing!

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Thank you so much. The sun is out. Somehow we have no damage, just mud. But keep praying for our state. Family and friends are in recovery mode repairing homes.

[@brittanybunch3780]

Can you post a video about a checklist? I am looking into building a pole barn house and want to eventually start homesteading and I'm not sure in what order to start doing everything. My biggest concern is electric and plumbing

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Hey Brittany! That’s a great idea. What we might do is a pdf or info graph. A word of encouragement, everyone is going to prioritize and begin building and adding to their homestead according to some unique variables. Including time of year, budget, climate/region, laws, time/availability/ability. So the best foot forward is your next one.

[@brittanybunch3780]

@@BetterTogetherLife omg I can't believe you replied lol fangirling overe here! 😂 And that would be awesome! I'm not on Facebook so hopefully you can link it on here somehow. Thank you so much! Stay safe! 😊

[@Lisa-wp1ff]

Our chickens are drowning. All we have is rain rain rain here in middle Ga

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Oh no! I hope you find some high ground. That’s awful.

[@onlyXknives]

you'll be back to 60-70s in a day or 2, up here in Iowa we got -30 for a few days and only just now getting back to 15 degrees, wanna trade? lol

[@BetterTogetherLife]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 No I don’t!!!! Lol!!! I have learned that I would prefer the 106 degrees of summer here than the ice. It is so cold! 🥶🥶🥶🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Glad y’all are prepped to weather that (pun intended). Texans are prepped for extreme heat primarily. Our homes are made to keep it out and not in. Not a flaw in the builds, just reality of living in a climate like ours.

[@javierbetancourt9388]

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